Plant Growing Guides

Acid-loving ferns

Various species (e.g., Polystichum, Dryopteris, Osmunda)

Acid-loving Perennials (Ferns)

Polypodiophyta (various genera)

Northern Maidenhair Fern

Adiantum pedatum

American Hornbeam

Carpinus caroliniana

Archangel

Lamium album subsp. album

Silver-edged Houttuynia

Houttuynia cordata 'Argenteomarginata'

Asarum

Asarum spp.

Canadian wild ginger

Asarum canadense

British Columbia Wild Ginger

Asarum caudatum

European Wild Ginger

Asarum europaeum

Asarum Wild Ginger

Asarum canadense

Asplenifolia

Asplenium ebeneum

Baltica Ivy

Hedera helix 'Baltica'

Baneberry

Actaea rubra

Bishop's Weed

Aegopodium podagraria

Bishop's Weed Argenteum

Aegopodium podagraria 'Argenteum'

Bishop's Weed Variegatum

Aegopodium podagraria 'Variegatum'

Black Cohosh

Actaea racemosa

Blue Cohosh

Caulophyllum thalictroides

Bracken Fern

Pteridium aquilinum

Broad Leaf Plantain

Plantago major

Bugle

Ajuga reptans

Bulgarian Ivy

Hedera helix subsp. balcanica

Calypogeia fissa

Calypogeia fissa

Canadian Hemlock

Tsuga canadensis

Cardamine

Cardamine species

Wavy Bittercress

Cardamine flexuosa

Climbing Ivy

Hedera helix

Climbing Spindle Berry

Euonymus fortunei

Conocephalum conicum

Conocephalum conicum

Cool-growing ferns

Various species (e.g., Polystichum, Dryopteris, Asplenium)

Creeping Charlie

Glechoma hederacea

Creeping Ivy

Hedera helix

Creeping Ivy Goldheart

Hedera helix 'Goldheart'

Creeping Ivy Hibernica

Hedera hibernica

Creeping Ivy Pittsburgh

Hedera helix 'Pittsburgh'

Creeping Myrtle

Vinca minor

Crested Shield Fern

Polystichum setiferum

Dead Nettle

Lamium album

Wheki

Dicksonia squarrosa

Variegated Japanese False Solomon's Seal

Disporum sessile

Drought-tolerant native ferns

Various species (e.g., Polystichum, Dryopteris, Asplenium)

Dwarf Fern

Pteridium aquilinum var. pubescens (and other dwarf cultivars)

English Ivy

Hedera helix

False Hellebore

Veratrum viride

Figwort

Scrophularia nodosa

Flowering Understory Trees

Various species (e.g., Cornus, Cercis, Amelanchier, Halesia)

Fragile Fern

Cystopteris fragilis